Saturday, September 12, 2020

New small satellite mission to rendezvous with binary asteroids

Denver CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2020
The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and Moon. In a project review on Sept. 3, NASA gave the official go-ahead to the Janus mission, named a

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